"Hood (car) The hood (North American English) or bonnet (Commonwealth English excluding Canada) is the hinged cover over the engine of motor vehicles that allows access to the engine compartment (or trunk on rear-engine and some mid-engine vehicles) for maintenance and repair. In British terminology, ""hood"" refers to a fabric cover over the passenger compartment of the car (known as the 'top' in the US). In many motor vehicles built in the 1930s and 1940s, the resemblance to an actual hood or bonnet is clear when open and viewed head-on; in modern vehicles it continues to serve the same purpose"
"British (babies wear ""nappies"", not ""diapers""; cars have ""bonnets"" and ""windscreens""; children study ""maths"", use ""rubbers"" to erase their mistakes and wish they were on ""holiday""), while newer phenomena are typically ""imported"" together with their American names. The American term ""trunk"" is almost universally used instead of the British term ""boot"" on cars, while the engine covering is always referred to by the British term ""bonnet"" (as elsewhere throughout the English-official Caribbean). This is probably because the American term, ""hood"", is used in Jamaica as a vulgar slang for penis (but not elsewhere in the Caribbean). Jamaican Standard English uses"
"Hood scoop A bonnet/hood scoop, sometimes called bonnet airdam/air dam, is an upraised component on the hood of a motor vehicle that either allows a flow of air to directly enter the engine compartment, or appears to do so. It has only one opening and is closed on all other sides. Its main function is to allow a direct flow of air to the engine, hence the need for it to be upraised so as to effectively channel air to the engine compartment. It may be closed, and thus purely decorative, or serve to enhance performance in several possible ways."
"Hood ornament A hood/bonnet ornament, radiator cap, motor mascot or car mascot is a specially crafted model which symbolizes a car company like a badge, located on the front center portion of the hood. It has been used as an adornment nearly since the inception of automobiles. According to the author of ""A History of Cars"" written for youth, the first ""hood ornament"" was a sun-crested falcon (to bring good luck) mounted on Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun's chariot. In the early years, automobiles had their radiator caps outside of the hood and on top of the grille which also served as"
"of the province's Scottish and Irish ethnicity. Examples include referring to the hood of a car as an ""engine bonnet"" and a barn as a ""byre."" The latter is much more common amongst older speakers. The arse end of a car may also be referred to as the ""boot"". ""Go to the arse end of the car, lift the bonnet, and check inside the boot. Luh! I found the tire iron! Right where it's s'poseda be!"". Going for a ""ramble"" would refer to going for a long walk for pleasure. Truancy is often referred to as playing hookey, skipping, ditching,"
"Quarter panel A quarter panel (British English: rear wing) is the body panel (exterior surface) of an automobile between a rear door (or only door on each side for two-door models) and the trunk (boot) and typically wraps around the wheel well. The similar front section between the door and the hood (bonnet), is called a fender, and is also referred to as a quarter panel. Quarter panels are typically made of sheet metal, but are sometimes made of fiberglass, carbon fiber, or fiber-reinforced plastic. A quarter panel is typically a welded-on component of the unibody structure. Replacement of a"
"Trunk (car) The trunk (North American English), boot (British English), dickie (Indian English) (also spelled dickey or dicky) or compartment (South-East Asia) of a car is the vehicle's main storage compartment. The trunk or luggage compartment is most often located at the rear of the vehicle. Early designs included an exterior rack mounted on the rear of the vehicle to which it was possible to attach a real luggage trunk. Later designs integrated the storage area into the vehicle's body and evolved to provide a streamlined appearance. The main storage compartment is normally provided at the end of the vehicle"
"the First World War-era music hall song ""In your little poke bonnet and shawl"". Poke bonnet A poke bonnet (sometimes also referred to as a Neapolitan bonnet) is a women's bonnet, featuring a small crown and wide and rounded front brim. Typically this extends beyond the face. It has been suggested that the name came about because the bonnet was designed in such a way that the wearer's hair could be contained within the bonnet. Poke may also refer to the brim itself, which jutted out beyond the wearer's face. There were many variations of the style, which remained popular"
"America and Japan. Elements of the trend have been retained in modern automotive styling. The term derives from the French and German word ""ponton"", meaning 'pontoon'. The Langenscheidt German–English dictionary defines ""Pontonkarrosserie"" as ""all-enveloping bodywork, straight-through side styling, slab-sided styling."" The term ""ponton styling"" may have derived from the wartime practice in Germany of adding full-length tread armor along each side of a tank, attached primarily on the top edge—which resembled pontoons. As this roughly coincided with automobile styling trend where bodywork, especially running boards and fenders, became less articulated—with cars carrying integrated front fenders and full-width, full-length bodywork—the design"
"may be held down by a concealed latch. On race cars or cars with aftermarket hoods (that do not use the factory latch system) the hood may be held down by hood pins. The term ""Nader bolt"" is a nickname for the bolt on vehicles that allows a hinged door to remain safely latched and closed. It is named after consumer rights advocate and politician Ralph Nader, who in 1965 released the book ""Unsafe at Any Speed"" which claimed that American cars were fundamentally flawed with respect to operator safety. Latches in seatbelts typically fasten the belt which constrains the"
"United States. In Australia and New Zealand the term ""sedan"" is predominantly used, with ""saloon"" only finding occasional usage, particularly in the field of motor racing. In other languages, sedans are known as berline (French), berlina (European Spanish, European Portuguese, Romanian, and Italian); although these terms also may include hatchbacks. These terms, besides sedan, derive from types of horse-drawn carriages. In German, the term limousine is used for sedans, and ""Stretch-Limousine"" for limousines. Close-coupled sedans are a body style produced in the United States and Great Britain during the 1920s and 1930s. Like other close-coupled body styles, the rear seats"
"in Czechoslovakia. The Lalique company, like Louis Lejeune, is one of the few survivors from this era of motoring. There is a collectors market for hood ornaments and car mascots. Hood ornament A hood/bonnet ornament, radiator cap, motor mascot or car mascot is a specially crafted model which symbolizes a car company like a badge, located on the front center portion of the hood. It has been used as an adornment nearly since the inception of automobiles. According to the author of ""A History of Cars"" written for youth, the first ""hood ornament"" was a sun-crested falcon (to bring good"
"T-top A T-top (UK: T-bar) is an automobile roof with a removable panel on each side of a rigid bar running from the center of one structural bar between pillars to the center of the next structural bar. The panels of a traditional T-top are usually made of auto grade safety glass. The removable panel roof was patented by Gordon Buehrig on June 5, 1951. It was first used in a 1948 prototype by The American Sportscar Company or “Tasco.” The 1968 Chevrolet Corvette coupe was the first U.S.-built production automobile to feature a T-top roof. This increased the popularity"
"in the U.S. at one point. The American author E.B. White, in an October 1940 ""Harper's"" essay ""Motor Cars"", refers to ""...mudguards, or 'fenders' as the younger generation calls them."" In German, it is known as a ""Kotflügel"" ('mud wing'). In the United States, a minor car accident is often called a ""fender bender"". Early automobile fenders set over the wheels to prevent mud, sand and dust being thrown on to the body and the occupants. Fenders typically became a more integral part of overall auto bodies by the mid-1930s. In contrast to the slab-sided cars, the Volkswagen Beetle had"
"and was replaced by ""motor car"". ""Automobile"" remains chiefly North American, particularly as a formal or commercial term. An abbreviated form, ""auto"", was formerly a common way to refer to cars in English, but is now considered old-fashioned. The word is still very common as an adjective in American English, usually in compound formations like ""auto industry"" and ""auto mechanic"". In Dutch and German, two languages historically related to English, the abbreviated form ""auto"" (Dutch) / ""Auto"" (German), as well as the formal full version ""automobiel"" (Dutch) / ""Automobil"" (German) are still used — in either the short form is"
"is called a shaker hood, because the scoop vibrates noticeably when the engine is running, especially under power. A hood scoop/top mounted intercooler can be beneficial, especially during an off-road rally race. Rocks and debris can be kicked up by a car in front, and those objects can damage a front-mounted intercooler. However, rock guards can be installed to prevent this problem. Hood scoop A bonnet/hood scoop, sometimes called bonnet airdam/air dam, is an upraised component on the hood of a motor vehicle that either allows a flow of air to directly enter the engine compartment, or appears to do"
"real bolt-on fenders over both its front and rear wheels. In current US auto industry nomenclature, usually only the panels over the front wheels are called fenders. The auto industry changed from rear fenders bolted onto a quarter panel to an enlarged welded-on quarter panel that fulfilled both functions. This resulted in one piece where there had previously been two, and name of the larger welded piece, the quarter panel, survived the consolidation. Quarter panels are at the rear, with an exception made for dual rear wheel trucks, where the panel at the rear is called a fender. For vehicles"
"doors or the body, and no permanent roof, whether rigid or folding. There were also double phaetons, with two rows of seats, triple phaetons, or even closed phaetons. After 1912, American use of the term began to be most closely associated with the ""triple phaeton"" body configurations that had room for three rows of seats, whether all three were installed or not. This also led to the term ""phaeton"" becoming similar to, and eventually interchangeable with, the term ""touring car"". A specific use of the term ""phaeton"" is with the ""dual cowl phaeton"", a body style in which the rear"
"could refer to the older poorly maintained vehicles' tendency to back-fire. The terms ""shed"" and ""cut and shut"" are also used, although a ""cut and shut"" refers specifically to a car made by welding the front of one car to the rear of another, usually after both original cars were damaged. In North American slang ""jalopy"", ""clunker"", ""heap"", ""rust bucket"" and ""bucket"" are also used. So too are ""beater""—a term especially favored in Canada—and the American urban ""hooptie"", which gained some popularity from the humorous song ""My Hooptie"" by Sir Mix-a-Lot. The word ""jalopy"" was once common but is now"
"bumper, or is right under it, is also considered a part of the vehicle’s fascia. Carmakers often design the body panels that form the nose of their vehicles to have a unified look across their model line (see the ‘shark’ grille by Mitsubishi, or ‘tiger-nose’ grille by Kia). The name came from the Italian word ""fascia"" (), that means ""stripe"". Fascia (car) Fascia is a term used in two areas in the automotive world. ""Fascia"" often refers to the decorative panels of a car's dashboard, or the dashboard assembly. Regulations affecting bumper design in the late 1970s saw the increasing"
"Ponton (car) Ponton or pontoon styling refers to a 1930s–1960s car design genre. The trend emerged as bodywork began to enclose the full width and uninterrupted length of a car, incorporating previously distinct running boards and articulated fenders. The fenders of an automobile with ponton styling may also be called ""Pontoon fenders,"" and the overall trend may also be known as ""envelope styling."" Now largely archaic, the term ""Ponton"" describes the markedly bulbous, slab-sided configuration of postwar European cars, including those of Mercedes-Benz, Opel, Auto Union, DKW, Borgward, Lancia, Fiat, Rover, Renault, and Volvo—as well as similar designs from North"
"fitted) also turns off the auxiliary heating or the compressor, depending on temperature. This functionality is unaffected by the presence of fuel-powered or electrical auxiliary heating. The front of the car included an unusual design feature called the ""Serviceklappe"" in German — this translates to ""service hatch"" or ""service panel"". On early cars, this was a glossy black panel at the lower edge of the bonnet (hood), where the radiator grille would normally be sited. Behind it are the filling points for oil and screen wash fluid and the dipstick. Thanks to these features, the bonnet does not need to"
"Poke bonnet A poke bonnet (sometimes also referred to as a Neapolitan bonnet) is a women's bonnet, featuring a small crown and wide and rounded front brim. Typically this extends beyond the face. It has been suggested that the name came about because the bonnet was designed in such a way that the wearer's hair could be contained within the bonnet. Poke may also refer to the brim itself, which jutted out beyond the wearer's face. There were many variations of the style, which remained popular throughout much of the 19th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art notes that the"
"Bondo (putty) Bondo putty is an automotive body filler and a brand name used by 3M for a line of American-made products for automotive, marine and household repairs. The term Bondo is trademarked by 3M, but is commonly used to refer to any brand of automotive repair putty due to its popularity. It is also used by sculptors. Before the 1940s, body solder was often used to repair large imperfections prior to painting. In both new cars and vehicle repair shops. Solder repairs were conducted using a flame and wooden paddles covered in tallow or motor oil, which prevented the"
"Phaeton body A phaeton is a style of open automobile without any fixed weather protection, which was popular from the 1900s until the 1930s. It is an automotive equivalent of the horse-drawn fast, lightweight phaeton carriage. A popular style in the USA from the mid–1920s and continuing into the first half of the 1930s was the dual cowl phaeton, with a cowl separating the rear passengers from the driver and front passenger. Phaetons fell from favour when closed cars and convertible body styles became widely available during the 1930s. Eventually, the term ""phaeton"" became so widely and loosely applied that"
"multiposition rear shelf on the Chrysler PT Cruiser can be used as a table for a picnic, a second cargo layer, or a security screen. The Citroën C3 has a foldable segmented false floorboard that compartmentalises the cargo area, makes loading easier, and evens out the load floor when the back of the rear seat is folded down. Trunk (car) The trunk (North American English), boot (British English), dickie (Indian English) (also spelled dickey or dicky) or compartment (South-East Asia) of a car is the vehicle's main storage compartment. The trunk or luggage compartment is most often located at the"
"rear fender produced the bobber customization style of the 1950s onwards. Fender (vehicle) Fender is the American English term for the part of an automobile, motorcycle or other vehicle body that frames a wheel well (the fender underside). Its primary purpose is to prevent sand, mud, rocks, liquids, and other road spray from being thrown into the air by the rotating tire. Fenders are typically rigid and can be damaged by contact with the road surface. Instead, flexible mud flaps are used close to the ground where contact may be possible. Sticky materials, such as mud, may adhere to the"
"However, the historic Jeep DJ ""Surrey Gala"" with the fringed top, seats and Continental tire mount are of colorful vinyl-coated fabrics with ""candy stripes"" of pink, green or blue to match solid body colors. Continental tire A Continental tire or a Continental kit is an upright externally-mounted spare tire located behind an automobile's trunk, made popular by the original Lincoln Continental. The term also describes a non-functional bulge that is stamped into the trunk lid or a cosmetic accessory to the rear of the car giving the impression of a spare tire mount. The pre-mounted spare tire and wheel combination"
"such as ""stop"", ""left"", ""right"", or ""home"". In the United States, a coupe de ville with rear doors for the passenger area, no roof or sides for the driver's area, and a partition between the passengers and the driver was referred to as a ""town car"" or ""town brougham"". Town cars normally had side windows in the doors only.. The name ""town car"" is an Anglicized version of ""de Ville"". In the United Kingdom, a coupé de ville with a fixed or folding roof over the rear seats and open front seats was referred to as a ""sedanca coupé"".. A"
"Bonnet (headgear) Bonnet has been used as the name for a wide variety of headgear for both sexes—more often female—from the Middle Ages to the present. As with ""hat"" and ""cap"", it is impossible to generalize as to the styles for which the word has been used, but there is for both sexes a tendency to use the word for styles in soft material and lacking a brim, or at least one all the way round, rather than just at the front. Yet the term has also been used, for example, for steel helmets. This was from Scotland (in 1505),"
"Spirit of Ecstasy The Spirit of Ecstasy is the bonnet ornament on Rolls-Royce cars. It is in the form of a woman leaning forwards with her arms outstretched behind and above her. Billowing cloth runs from her arms to her back, resembling wings. The very first Rolls-Royce motorcars did not feature radiator mascots; they simply carried the Rolls-Royce emblem. When Montagu commissioned his friend, sculptor Charles Robinson Sykes, who worked in London under the nobleman's patronage, to sculpt a personal mascot for the bonnet of his 1909 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, Sykes chose Eleanor Velasco Thornton as his model. Sykes originally"
"the Corvette. Chevrolet wanted a non-animal name starting with ""C"" for the sports car in 1953, and Scott chose the name of a fast ship, the corvette. Myron Scott Myron E. Scott (September 16, 1907 – October 4, 1998) was the creator of the All-American Soap Box Derby. He is also credited with naming Chevrolet's sports car, the Corvette. Scott was born in Camden, Ohio. After school hours, he worked for the ""Dayton Daily News"" and learned photography, and had pictures published in ""Life Magazine"" and other publications. In 1933, as chief photographer for the ""Dayton Daily News,"" he came"
"or folding roof, and low side panels and doors. Torpedo cars didn't have B pillars, so the only uprights present were those supporting the windshield. Similar styles are phaeton and baquet. The name is also used for trucks with a hood/bonnet. Torpedo (car) The torpedo body style was a type of automobile body used from 1908 until the mid-1930s which had a streamlined profile and a folding or detachable soft top. The design consists of a hood/bonnet line raised to be level with the car's waistline, resulting in a straight beltline from front to back. The name was introduced in"